A VM enthusiast and a VM skeptic team up to cover what’s happening in the world of VMs. In this video, Developer Advocates Carter Morgan and Brian Dorsey chat about Spot instances which are a discount of about 60 to 90% off the on-demand instance prices, but there’s a trade off. Watch to learn when you can (and should) use Spot Instances!
Click on the video below to watch it in detail:
Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
0:47 - Spot instances overview
1:43 - Discounts are good... what's the catch?
3:00 - 60-90% discount is... quite the range.
6:22 - What is a Spot VM?
8:00 - How do you test spot workloads?
9:24 - Keeping track of VMs that come and go?
13:35 - How do I get started?
14:45 - Wrap up.
Extra credit:
- Spot VMs → https://goo.gle/3RA0wTo
